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HAMILTON, OHIO - Eclipse Film Technologies, a startup company in Hamilton that does machine direction orientation of film, bought an MDO line from Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp.

The MDO line is running at Eclipse's 25,000-square-foot plant. The company specializes in orientation of films, using a wide range of substrates, such as olefins, high-barrier webs and others.

Using MDO, Eclipse produces film for the food and medical industries at lower cost, with improved stiffness, strength, optics and barrier properties.

Windmoeller & Hoelscher is based in Lincoln, R.I.

Austria's DMT sells BOPP line to refinery

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA - DMT Technology GmbH of Salzburg has sold equipment for making biaxially oriented polypropylene film to a petrochemical refinery in the country of Turkmenistan.

The project will start production this year at the state-owned Turkmenneftegas refinery, on the Caspian Sea. The value of the contract was about 40 million euros ($62 million), which includes one of DMT's BOPP film stretching line, auxiliary equipment such as slitters, metalizers, plus the building itself.

It marks the biggest single contract signed in DMT's history.

Turnkenneftegas will make the BOPP film from natural gas it produces at the refinery, making it one of the few producers of the film with complete integration from gas to film, according to DMT.

The servo-controlled pressure tester allows laboratory personnel to measure the performance of all points of a container, simultaneously, on one device. It uses tap water for filling and nitrogen gas for pressurization.

PTI officials said this type of test is becoming more important as the bottle industry moves to smaller containers made of advanced materials, since smaller and lighter bottles have a greater tendency to expand.

Agr International is in Butler, Pa.

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